NATO C3 Agency

The NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) is a non-profit, 100% customer-funded organisation. The Agency serves the NATO Alliance, its constituent nations and agencies.

With roots going back over 50 years, its mission is to support NATO through the provision of unbiased scientific support and common funded acquisition of Consultation, Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities. The agency started in 1955 as the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) Air Defence Tactical Centre. This evolved in the NATO C3 Agency, now called the NC3A.

Track record

The NC3A is a valued and effective arm of the NATO Alliance, delivering products and services across the entire C4ISR life cycle, from system concepts and requirements to fielded systems and other operational assistance. It maintains an integral and supporting presence in all of NATO's theatres of operation, including the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Key systems

It implements key systems that the leadership of NATO needs in order to perform political consultation and military functions of command and control: terrestrial and satellite communications; the automated information systems and applications that use these media to exchange information; analytical and NATO expertise underlying all R&D and acquisition projects and much more.

For more information, visit the website of the NATO C3 Agency, or download the pdf about the NATO C3 Agency.

Contact details

Oude Waalsdorperweg 61
P.O. Box 174
2501 CD The Hague
Telephone: 070 - 374 30 00
Email: info@nc3a.nato.int
Internet: www.nc3a.nato.int